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You're welcome! (Again!)
Are you kidding me? The base art is terrific! I have always loved the composition of this page; it has a very kinematic quality. It's like the whole page is doing a backflip. It's... animated!

Evil monsters and terrible magic are no match for fierce postures and enormous shurikens.

wow
hey, I seen and readed many FF 7 fics, but this comic easily tramples the rest!, I Only read chapter one and now im hooked to this O_o

The result is pretty good. Even though, what are you waiting for to get a tablet? ;) The Wacom Bamboo series is relatively unexpensive, and if you save your money for a while you could be able to get one.
It makes the difference when working on the PC, believe me.

What am I waiting for? I kinda spent all my money on a house, so I've been trying to hold off on buying toys. (But it won't be long before the house starts generating revenue.) Also I like how I can use a stick mouse with equal ease and precision at a desk, on a plane, or in a car on a rough road, so I'm not desperate to get a different input device. And I wonder if my money might be better spent on a scanner, camera, monitor, or desktop computer.

I played with a friend's Wacom 12x19 Intuos. I didn't like it using it all that much, even though I was impressed with its performance. I think I'd be happier with something small. Also I had a lot of trouble mentally correlating tablet positions with screen positions.

He used to have a Cintiq (tablet with integrated screen) until his kids took scissors to it. :^( I might save up for one of those; its learning curve should be more gentle than that of a traditional tablet.

What do you use?

Heh, sorry. Actually, I'm not thinking about buying a house anytime soon... too expensive, and I haven't found yet where I'd really like to live.
But if I were your friend, I'd keep my children away from my Cintiq with iron gates... ;-) I think it's the best tool a digital artist can get, but it costs around 3 times an Intuos, a price that few can afford.
I now own a Graphire, the simplest kind (now substituted by Bamboo), and I'm thinking about switching to an Intuos, which is much more sensitive and should let me fully exploit natural media brushes in a software like Painter. It's the choice most artists make.
As for the size, most people seem to think that the bigger, the better, but bigger tablets are also clumsier and I wish to stick to my usual A5 (European size).
In the beginning it actually wasn't easy to get used to the tablet surface and I felt like I was drawing with my left hand; the key to that is simple: practice! My guest-inked Growth pages are all inked digitally, something I'd never be able to do just a year ago. :D